Today we will learn how to increase our sensitivity to psychic
energies. Many a times, I see complaints about not being able to
sense energy being vented around PsiPog. Since it is quite a
fundamental step to known how to handle the fabric of your
creations in a successful manner, I thought I would step up to the
plate and add my two cents worth.

There are numerous ways to increase a persons’ sensitivity. Simply
being in the working field on a day-to-day basis is a sure way to
up it at least half a notch. But seeing as how a generally outlaid
routine might not work for everyone, and added to the fact that a
lot of you are far too lazy to stick with the program to see if it
eventually will bear fruit, I’ll spoon feed you this time.

There are naturally other reasons why one might solely focus on
increasing sensitivity without necessarily being lazy. One could
just be more interested in a specific field of practice that
demands a certain degree of sensitivity, such as telepathy. One
could also have developed a personal quirk that makes them head
blind, but otherwise quite capable of manipulating energy.

My method is simple, but does not magically raise your sensitivity
in one stroke nor is it the be-all-end-all to the matter. It’s a
routine I found successful but as of yet has not been tested by
anyone else, so there is no guarantee it will work for you. That
said, let’s start small.

The first steps
Have you ever noticed the subtle, but definite change in you when
another person enters an otherwise empty room? It’s hard to
pinpoint and describe, but it is relatively easy to relate to as
it happens to everyone. Let us for simplicity’s sake call that
your “awareness” picking up on their “awareness” to save us
getting too technical. This is in my very humble opinion, a
defence mechanism to alert us when possible friends and foes are
heading in our direction. You could attribute this to hearing very
faint sounds made from the approaching person, but when you
increased your sensitivity, you will understand how hard it is to
hear very faint sounds in a kilometer radius. I brought this up
since I wanted to talk about your awareness of your immediate
surroundings and yourself, our aim is to increase both the actual
range of what this field can reach and amplifying it’s ability to
make these signals picked up known to us. That is what we will
work with.

When you feel someone else’s awareness you usually reach out a
little, unconsciously or not, and try to “guess” who it is. If you
do not know how to reach out to someone else’s awareness you
should practice doing so, and for all to keep with the program I
might as well go over that too. To learn how to reach out you must
first realize your own sphere of awareness, easy enough as you are
always aware of it – it is the part that you define as “you” and
sometimes slightly outside this core. This is as simple as I can
put it to you so if you can’t get it; you’ve flunked as three-year
olds are able to recognize their own awareness. Now to push out,
you just biofeedback your awareness outside your body, a few feet
forward or half across the globe, but beginners should just stick
to a few feet. Just feel a few feet forward similar to when you
make a psiball but this time, you put your awareness in the place
where the psiball would be. Don’t bother about “projecting” any
physical part of your body, that blobbed mass of awareness is well
enough. If this sounds too hard to accomplish I think you are
making a chicken out of a feather. It’s not a real projection as
you would in Remote Presence for example, but you simply pull some
of your attention out of your head and put it the spot you see
fit.

When I first started experimenting with this I found it easiest to
feel my awareness like a fog that floats out to the desired spot.
Now, I say ‘feel’ because I prefer tactile visualization/guiding
instead of the more visual visualization -- especially when
working on areas that involve reaching out and working with your
awareness, such as in telepathy. But you decide for yourself which
method makes sense and produces a satisfactory result. Practice
floating your concentration and part of your “feel” to a spot in
front of you until you can do so in a matter of seconds.

Now you can move on to making your practice sessions a little more
flexible since you can do them “on the spot” so to speak. Feel
your way through your house, bend it around corners, put your
awareness in one room and walk out of the room in question. Go
upstairs or outside and feel the line that connects you to the
room you put your awareness in. This is all easy children’s play,
but sometimes we forget how to do it. Again, this is not a full on
projection to the specific spot, so don’t expect any data to come
to you as of yet, you are just getting used to leaving a little
“beacon” of you behind. This in itself is an easy way to add to
your overall sensitivity. Why is that? Well, seeing how I have not
thoroughly tested it scientifically, and I doubt it’s even worth
the trouble, my humble theory is this: When you extend your
awareness that usually is situated in your body outwards, your
body adopts accordingly. At first you might not get much out of
it, but with enough time spent sensing things outside your body
instead of inside, your mind invents ways to cope with this “new”
state of being and hence you grow more sensitive to psychic
energies. You might start hearing incoming telepathic signals; you
might awaken to precognitive bursts or develop a psychokinetic
geisting. While the latter is not the most popular, I believe it
is a direct manifestation of your mind/body learning how to
navigate in unfamiliar territory.

This is in a nutshell, a good solid way to increase your
sensitivity, by tricking your mind into adopting in a new
environment.

Daily Exercises
So, how do you integrate this into your daily schedule? I’ve
listed a few easy exercises, which I also will go over, because
I’m a nice guy, and filled with sugar.

Taking a walk-around in your house
Feeling the presence of people long before they arrive at your
house
Getting peoples psychic signature
Finding your friends in large crowds
Scanning people
Easy telepathic exercises, pinging being one

The first one needs no explanation and is really just the same
thing you did under your rudimentary training, but it keeps you
from getting rusty and as it only takes a few seconds, you can do
it wherever you are, so it fits an everyday exercise. The second
one is also a no-brainer, it’s the same thing that occurs
naturally when you feel people entering the area where you are,
but this time you will probably be more aware of them and if you
let your awareness expand, you can catch them quite some distance
from where you are. The opposite, shrinking your awareness, is a
good counter-measure along with shielding if the situation becomes
stressful. More on this later.

Now, the third exercise would require some basic telepathy skills,
and some explanation on my part. First of, if you do not know how
to retrieve a person’s energy “id-print” there are lots of
excellent articles on PsiPog that explains them or at least gives
you a good general idea on how to obtain them. But in short, it’s
that unique feeling you get about other people when coming in
contact with them. If you have multiple friends, I bet that they
do not “feel” exacly the same, now do they? If you take away your
personal opinions about the person in question, and just try to
feel them as a concept, you end up with their signature.

With your now flexible awareness, this is even easier. When you
stretch out to someone you get their awareness, as well as their
signature, their “sig”. Now it is easy to confuse the two, and at
first they appear to be one and the same and can be used as such,
but with practice you notice that there is a difference between
their “here I am”-awareness and their individual “glow”. The
reason why I brought up this exercise is because if you are
familiar with your friends’ signatures, and have a good idea on
what their presence feels like, finding them in a crowd is a lot
easier.

Scanning is a very useful ability, and it is just as easy as
aquiring a sig, but it helps if you know how to aquire the
aformentioned. Get the sig, stretch out to the target and feel
your away around them. Float over their feel and touch it gently.
With some practice, you should be able to gather a lot of useful
information about your target. With your awareness you can see
what the target is up to, what shields he/she has active and what
psi activity is going on. You can also read the target’s own field
which sometimes carry over surface thoughts, emotions, intentions,
etc. Allthough you might find it hard to make sense of the blob of
information on your first try, rest assure that it will become
increasingly easy to sort that out.

The telepathic exercises. Now this will combine using signatures
and the targets awareness. This calls for some abstract concepts
so bear with me as I go through it. First you clear your mind and
let your awareness stretch out a few feet around you; flex it some
in case it is rusty. Take a few breaths and focus on your
awareness and your conce ntration. Forget your body, as you won’t
need it right now. Now decide on a target, preferably your patient
and trustworthy partner, and retrieve their sig, their individual
feel. Now when you have that to “zoom in on” you try to recreate
their awareness and place it in your room. Now this can be hard if
you’ve never done it with this partner before, so if you do not
feel their awareness you should work with their sig for a few
sessions until it reveals the target’s awareness. Sigs are good
for a lot of things, one being that they can leak such
information. However, for simplicity’s sake let us say you know
what their awareness feel like. If you met people that day, you
know what another person’s general awareness feels like. Or, if
you have a close friend who you are used to feeling, you can base
that as a blueprint for the target. So with this in mind you open
yourself up a little further, and feel the target’s awareness in
your room, but try to keep them at an arm’s length. It is very
easy and tempting to let their awareness intermingle with yours,
especially when you are already “connected” with them through
their sig, but try not to. It can create a link, which can be hard
to shake once the session is over and in all fairness is beyond
the scope of this article. So just keep the target at an arm’s
length or more. Pinging comes naturally when you reach out at the
target, and if they are the least bit sensitive, they will feel
you, and hopefully reach back at you.

So why use this method when telepathizing? Well, for a practicing
telepath I found it hard to juggle the target’s sig and getting
the message across. Most of the time I would drop their sig, the
telephone line, while trying to project what I wanted to
communicate, which resulted in a glitch and probably irritating
experience in my target. But when I recreated the target’s
awareness, I found it much easier to relax. Their awareness was
like a foggy nightstand where I could place the telephone, while
scribbling down my message. It basically makes the session that
much easier to handle since you manage the connection with you
awareness instead of keeping it alive with a picture in your head.
That is as easy as I can put it, but since we are talking about
familiar concepts most can relate to; hopefully you will have no
trouble getting the picture. Trancing
This section delves a little deeper into the subject of expanded
awareness, and as such might be over the top of some people’s
heads. Trances can be very powerful tools if you can operate them,
and since you have a much greater control of your psi and your
awareness from it, despite what the seemingly drugged physical
exterior might show, they are very handy things indeed. I myself
favour the overload trance for two reasons. One being that I feel
I can operate in way that suits my current needs and second,
because that is the trance I can do on the spot in a second or
two. This is something I have always been able to do so I can’t
vouch for anyone else. And since I’ve always been able to do them,
it’s hard for me to explain exactly how to do it, but I’ll give it
a try.

Visualize through your mind’s eye, an ant’s perspective. Do not
just picture it in your head but see it, without using your
physical eyes of course. Insert a common object. I preferred a
screw when I was a kid, and look at it from your miniature
perspective. Each part of it is absolutely huge and you can feel
its enormous mass. Use your awareness to feel the huge dimensions
of it, each crack it has. Now make it bigger, and bigger and
bigger until it is as big as a house, but maintain your sense of
dimensions, it should be swindling. Now just keep on zooming out,
until you have a bird’s perspective, then zoom out even further,
until you are outside of this planet. What you might feel now is
your core, your awareness, spreading out in the room but not in
the way you manually do. This is much stronger. Depending on how
much you zoomed out you might start to pick up a lot of people’s
awareness’s and feel waves of emotions that are not your own. You
will feel very elevated, and have trouble forming that endless
stream of thought that normally scurries around in your head. Now
this might sound like a free trip to vegetable-state but it isn’t.
While in this state your normal state of being is not concentrated
in your body/head like usual, but instead, the state you are in
when you have projected your awareness outwards, is the default
state.

So what you have here is a projected state of awareness times ten,
and it’s a no brainer that telepathy and energy work in general,
is so much easier in this state. In fact, keeping stable
connections in this state is very easy. It’s not a question of
connecting to a line here; it’s being a mass of water and letting
other puddles of water float into you. It might sound strange if
you haven’t experienced it, but that’s as easy as I can put it.
I’ll direct you to Kmiller’s article for further methods of
inducing trance, but generally experimenting with projecting your
awareness, makes it easier for you to fall into a self-induced
trance as well as quickly switch from Beta to Alpha when you need
it.

Pros and Cons regarding sensitivity
You thought getting sensitive was all good and ice cream? Well
that’s what most people think, merely because they are not
sensitive and don’t know any better. I myself was not very
sensitive when I started out and like most was not fully aware of
the consequences. But don’t worry. There are repercussions and
counter-measures.

First, when you grow more sensitive you might start hearing
people’s random thoughts. Now this might sound like a good thing,
and it probably is if you can fully control the level of input,
which I mostly cannot - if I am not shielded they come. Usually
they are not full-blown thoughts unless the person in question
projects it very clearly. It is often projected attitudes about
you, their environment, and their family, whatever they are
thinking. So stressful situations become even more stressful when
you feel other people’s stress. Also, if people in your
environment are particularly interested in you, you can feel their
thoughts like a red-hot needle jammed into your head, which you
are not always up for. It’s similar to being hugged when you
really do not feel like it.

This is not limited to the immediate vicinity, I can no longer use
chat programs without shielding first. I rarely get thoughts from
random people, but I almost always feel the expressed intention
when they write something, the intention being someone will read
it and find it funny, interesting, rude, whatever. It’s more
concentrated when someone says something directed to me and can
only be described as the feeling of missing an appointment you
made, it’s a feeling that yanks at you and if not shielded makes
it impossible for me to concentrate on webpage reading. There are
of course more full-blown results of being sensitive, such as
hearing people’s expressed thoughts, their pain, their anger, etc.
You may even awaken geistings, which might manifest into very
minor things or big tornados. I have personally only geisted in
minor, albeit annoying ways, such as blowing out light bulbs,
crashing computer programs, shutting down my computer, interfering
with radio and speakers. The easiest way to counter-measure is to
center your awareness back into you, and shield. A general shield
is all right at first but sooner or later you will want to learn
how to program them so they filter out some people, but not all.

Since I mentioned trancing, I might warn you that trancing, seeing
as how they are much deeper than the projected awareness exercise,
might make your mind adopt a lot quicker, with side effects you
might not like. Personally, precognitive abilities blossom and die
in a cycle that corresponds to how often I trance. If I start
trancing on a daily basis for a set period of time, precognitive
messages will come to me the next day and fade after half a week.
This might sound neat but I do not care much for it. Commercials
are tedious enough without knowing their specific order and a
boring day turns even more dull if you already know what is going
to happen well before it does. Also, trances are harder to shake
off and it’s not a pleasurable feeling to still be scattered
across the room, unable to motivate yourself to form a thought for
well over ten minutes.

Everything comes with a price, so be careful when treading on
unknown grounds.